Text mining goals

According to researcher Marti Hearst, "In text mining, the goal is to discover heretofore unknown information, something that no one yet knows and so could not have yet written down." Text mining enables researchers to draw conclusions from large volumes of material they would not be able to otherwise read, synthesize, and incorporate into their scholarship.

Researchers in fields ranging from biological sciences to the humanities have begun using text mining to detect patterns and discover unknown information.

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